Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Buccinoidea Genus Barbitonia Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Buccinidae Scientific name Neptunea arthritica Rank Species | |
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Similar Neptunea, Neptunea polycostata, Siphonalia, Neptunea lyrata, Antillophos | ||
Barbitonia arthritica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Contents
There is one subspecies: Barbitonia arthritica arthritica (Valenciennes, 1858)
Distribution
This species occurs in the Black Sea.
Toxicity
B arthritica contains toxic tetramethylammonium salts (referred to as "tetramine" in this context) in its tissues, especially the salivary gland, and has the potential to cause human poisoning.
References
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